A Democrat who's doing well

 The Nation - Since his election in 2017, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has been recognized as one of this country’s boldest, and most effective, criminal justice reformers. But in the last year or so he has taken on a new role: as a prosecutor who is ready to push back against the extremist policies and threats of President Trump and his backers in the bluntest possible language. And with the boldest legal strategies—strategies so bold, in fact, that Krasner now says that his DA title—which, first and foremost refers to his work as a transformative district attorney who has made Philadelphia a safer and freer city—has come to have a new meaning in the second Trump term, “and that is Democracy Advocate.”

Where other Democrats struggle to figure out how to respond to Trump and Trumpism, Krasner hits the mark with a clarity that is as necessary as it is refreshing. More than that—it’s good politics. That was confirmed Tuesday, when Krasner overcame significant opposition, from more conservative Democrats and interloping Republicans, to win a landslide Democratic primary victory. The primary win virtually assures that Krasner will be reelected in November. It also confirms that, with politics increasingly nationalized by the so-called “Trump Effect,” Democrats running at the local level benefit from a focus on their opposition to the president’s policies—as Krasner did, when he promised to use his authority as one of the country’s highest-profile prosecutors to “slow down this maniacal behavior” of the White House.

As he stumped for a third term, Krasner declared that if he won ,“Then we are going to save our country. Then we are going to beat down the haters one more time—make sure these haters lose. Then we are going to stand up in the same way we stood up in the Civil War, that we stood up in World War II, we are going to stand up and we’re going to knock them down. That is going to be the future of organized labor, that is going to be the future of women, that’s going to be the future of LGBTQ people, that is going to be the future of making sure that every vote in Philadelphia is actually counted and not undermined.”